The details of the dramatic phone call were included in court documents released Tuesday that shed new light on the case against Stott-Smith, who has been accused of forcing her two children off the Sellwood Bridge last month.

The search warrant affidavits also reveal that Stott-Smith believed Jason Smith was having an affair with a woman who was a family friend. And they confirm reports that police tracked Stott-Smith down later the morning of May 23 by following her cell phone signal.

Taken together, the court documents provide a glimpse of a deeply troubled woman in a crumbling marriage who allegedly pushed her 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son into the inky black water of the Willamette River.

The girl survived after rescuers pulled her and her brother from the water. But Eldon Jay Rebhan Smith drowned.

Stott-Smith has pleaded not guilty to five counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and second-degree assault. Her next court appearance is July 15.

As part of their investigation, Portland police officers searched the Tualatin rental home at on Southwest Cayuse Court where Stott-Smith and Smith used to live with their children.

Investigators also searched Stott-Smith's 1991 Audi, which she had parked in a downtown parking structure.

The search of the house yielded seven medication bottles and a photo album. In the car, investigators seized photocopies from St. Vincent Behavioral Health Services, a business card from the Wildwood Psychiatric Resource Center in Beaverton and three handwritten notes.

The documents did not reveal what the notes said.

But they help fill in the timeline from the moment Stott-Smith picked up her children from her husband at 7 p.m. May 22 in Tualatin to her arrest the next day.

Smith told police the emotional phone call from Stott-Smith came about 1 a.m. on May 23.

"Help me, help me," Stott-Smith said, according to the affidavit.

Jason Smith asked about the children several times. But Stott-Smith didn't respond to the questions or say where the children were.

Although it's unclear from the court documents whether the children had been thrown into the river at that point, the first calls to 9-1-1 reporting screams near the Sellwood Bridge didn't come in until about 1:20 a.m.